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Verging on tears
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weepy
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Word definitions for weepy in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. liable to weep easily [also: weepiest , weepier ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Her eyes were red and weepy . EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Although Anna still experiences slight bloating and feels a little weepy before a period, her energy levels in general have increased. ▪ Gao Yang was frightened ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1825, from weep + -y (2). Related: Weepily ; weepiness . Weepie (n.) "sentimental film" is from 1928.
Usage examples of weepy.
Feeling almost weepy with dazedness and happiness, Meg followed with Laura and Jeremy.
We take our time, enjoying the weepy faces, the naked boobs flopping past the laps, the pretty, squirming red fannies, and the feet fluttering heels-up at each smack.
Lonna Leep had pitched a weepy spluttering fit and demanded to be reunited with her son.
His voice was blurry with the drug and with a childlike weepy puzzlement, as though he suspected Mace might break his favorite toy.
After a time, her stomach began to rumble, and knowing that hunger would only make her weepier, she got up and headed into the devastation in search of sustenance.
A killer-hoodlum who longed to be a nightclub comic and got weepy over lost dogs and crippled kids brought a big-city police department to its knees with a wire recording: Vice cops taking bribes and chauffeuring prostitutes.
But instead he got weepy, deeply depressed, started talking about what a bad person he was, all the terrible things he’.
We take our time, enjoying the weepy faces, the naked boobs flopping past the laps, the pretty, squirming red fannies, and the feet fluttering heels-up at each smack.
Mal got weepy on the kid, then went loony on Dudley Smith--Dudley made for José Diaz, Charles Hartshorn, suppression of evidence and a fuckload of conspiracy raps, Dudley sucking gas up at Q.
I also find her female characters to be a pleasant change from the usual weepy, fainting heroines one finds in so many novels.
Bush would hold open the Golden Door for immigrants, but not out of a weepy compassion for the “.
I’d have thought Callahan’s Place would be immune to that particular kind of carbuncle-we don’t seem to pick up the standard idiots that most saloons have to put up with, the weepy drunks and the belligerent loudmouths and the ones who drink to get stupider.
I'd have thought Callahan's Place would be immune to that particular kind of carbuncle - we don't seem to pick up the standard idiots that most saloons have to put up with, the weepy drunks and the belligerent loudmouths and the ones who drink to get stupider.
He looked away, at his pale, grey, characterless furniture, the weepy neutral carpet and noncolored walls.
Hoke and Bill Henderson shook hands with Doc Evans, and the four of them moved to the back of the lounge, out of earshot of the Peeples, the PR man, and the weepy Krishna.